Free Fall on the Farm Printables: 6 Farm Animal Worksheets for K–1

These free Fall on the Farm printables pack six barnyard pages into one download: counting hens, matching farm animal words, tracing, patterns, coloring, and a short writing prompt. Every picture is a cow, pig, hen, goat, or duck, so the same small set of words carries the whole week.

The set is built for kindergarten and first grade. Preschoolers who know their farm animals can do the counting and coloring pages with a little help on the rest.

Free for your family, co-op, or classroom. Prints on regular letter paper. Every page is checked for mistakes before we post it.

What's in the Fall on the Farm printables

1. Counting chickens

Five rows of the same white hen with a red comb, six down to two chickens per row in mixed order. Kids count each row and write the number in the empty box at the end.

Make it easier: Line up small toys or crackers to match each row before writing the number.
Make it harder: Ask which two rows add up to the most chickens together.

2. Word match

Left side: a duck, hen, goat, cow, and pig, each with a dot. Right side: the same five words in a different order, each with a dot. Kids draw a line from each picture to its word.

Make it easier: Say “duck, hen, goat, cow, pig,” pointing to each picture, before your child draws lines.
Make it harder: Hide the pictures with your hand and have your child read the words alone first.

3. Tracing

The same five farm words, each next to its picture. Kids trace the dotted gray letters, then write the word again on the blank half of the line.

Make it easier: Trace just the first letter of each word with a finger, then say the rest out loud.
Make it harder: Cover the tracing word and write all five from memory, then check them against the page.

4. Patterns: what comes next?

Four rows with a rule to spot: cow-pig alternating, mostly pigs with one cow, hens and cows in a block, then all three repeating. Kids draw what comes next in the box.

Make it easier: Act out the first row’s pattern with toy animals or drawings before your child draws it.
Make it harder: Have your child say each pattern out loud (AB, AAB, ABB, ABC) and build a new one.

5. Coloring page

A red barn with hay bales and a wooden fence, plus a cow, a pig, and a hen out front. It’s one of our favorite Fall on the Farm coloring pages, with thick outlines and big shapes that are easy for small hands.

Make it harder: Color each animal to match its real-life colors, then add a sun or clouds in the sky.

6. Draw and write

A big empty box for drawing a favorite farm animal, then the sentence starter “My favorite farm animal is…” The drawing gives your child something to talk about before they have to write a word.

Make it easier: Your child tells you the answer, you write it lightly, and they trace over it.
Make it harder: Add a second sentence that says why, with a capital letter and a period.

What kids practice with these fall on the farm worksheets

• Counting and writing numbers up to six, one hen at a time.
• Phonics. ow in cow says the same sound as in “now”; oa in goat is a vowel team for a long o; ck ends duck; pig and hen are short words with a short vowel in the middle.
• Handwriting. Tracing, then writing the same five words alone.
• Patterns, from a simple two-animal repeat up to a pattern of three.

A simple 5-day fall on the farm plan

1. Monday: Visit a farm or look at photos of hens, cows, pigs, goats, and ducks. Do the counting page.
2. Tuesday: Read the five farm words together, then do the word match page.
3. Wednesday: Do the tracing page and point out the oa in goat and the ow in cow.
4. Thursday: Line up farm animal toys in the patterns from the page, then do the patterns page.
5. Friday: Color the barn scene, finish the draw-and-write page, and date it for your homeschool portfolio.

Using the set in preschool, kindergarten, and first grade

Preschool: Counting, coloring, and naming each barnyard animal out loud, saying words instead of writing them.

Kindergarten: Work through all six pages, ending with the barn coloring scene.

First grade: Try the harder options above, then ask for one full sentence about the animal they drew.

Why farm animals get busier in fall

Hens lay fewer eggs once fall days get shorter, because a hen’s body uses daylight, not temperature, to know when to lay. Farmers plan for the season too: during the warmer months they cut and store grass as hay, packed into the bales stacked by the barn on the coloring page, so cows and goats still have food once pasture grass stops growing in the cold.

Farm animal books to read with this set

• Big Red Barn by Margaret Wise Brown
• Barnyard Dance! by Sandra Boynton
• Down on the Farm by Merrily Kutner
• The Cow Who Clucked by Denise Fleming

Printing this set, plus the answers

• Turn on “Fit to page” if your printer offers it, so the coloring page’s frame prints fully.
• Slide the counting, tracing, and patterns pages into sheet protectors for dry-erase reuse, and print the coloring page on cardstock for markers or paint.

Answers: Counting, top to bottom: 6, 4, 2, 5, 3. Patterns, top to bottom: pig, cow, cow, hen.

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